Future events

The Jackson Laboratory Courses and Conferences Department offers 25-30 events a year, both onsite and offsite.  Many of these events are offerred annually. Others are unique each year, focusing on specific disease areas and research initiatives worldwide.   Our current event information can be found using the "Current events" link in the left sidebar on this page.  The "Archived events" link will bring you to yearly archives of our event programs.

Annual courses

Courses may be small or large, but are always characterized as intensely interactive affairs consisting primarily of didactic presentations with related workshop components.  Attendees come primarily to learn, presumable not already knowing a great deal about the overal topic or portions therof. Courses are designed to teach and therefore usually offer topical material in a historical context with substantial amounts of introductory information.  Typically, courses have a syllabus driven format. 

  • Short Course on Medical And Experimental Mammalian Genetics
  • Short Course on Experimental Models of Human Cancer
  • Short Course on Genomic and Proteomic Approaches To Complex Heart, Lung, And Blood Diseases
  • Short Course on Systems Genetics
  • Colony Management: Principles And Practices
  • Workshop On The Pathology Of Mouse Models For Human Disease

Annual workshops

Workshops are characterized by a relatively small didactic component with substantial hands-on laboratory time.  Attendees come primarily to gain hands-on practical training in procedures and applications.

  • Modeling Human Diseases in Mice
  • Workshop On Surgical Techniques In The Laboratory Mouse
  • Workshop on Shipping and Reconstitution of Frozen Mouse Embryos
  • Cryopreservation Of Mouse Germplasm
  • Phenotyping Mouse Models of Human Lung Disease
  • Comprehensive Approaches to the in vivo Assessment of Cardiovascular Function in Mice

Annual or biennial meetings

Audiences are comprised of a fairly focused group of established scientists, post-docs and students. Attendees come together to learn and compare notes on a topic of common professional interest. Meetings generally assume a high level of knowledge related to the meeting topic and rarely involve much historical information as contextual framework.  Meetings may include workshop components and are designed as a forum for the presentation of topical material with a high degree of current interest.  Meetings often, if not always, involve the presentation of unpublished scientific materials.

  • Cancer (planning for a focus on colon cancer in 2009)
  • Drug Discovery Strategies
  • Stem Cell Symposium (with MDIBL)
  • Nanostructural Genomics / Frontiers in Microscopy / Imaging Technologies
  • Experimental Models in Vision Research
  • Experimental Models in Hearing Research